Re: Emacs shell: set TERM to ansi instead of dumb

[Juri Linkov]

> Since the terminal for M-x shell seems to support ansi colors and cursor
> movement, would it make sense to set TERM to ansi instead of dumb? I
> currently have an init_bash.sh containing the line TERM=ansi, but it seems
> to me that it would be better for that to be the default.

Thanks for suggestion.  I tried to use "TERM=ansi" together with
customizing 'comint-terminfo-terminal' to "ansi", and it works fine
everywhere, except compilation mode.  In compilation buffers
it inserts unhandled escape sequences that break fontification.
Had to disable ansi in compilation by customizing
'compilation-environment' to '("TERM=dumb")'.